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You live in the real world, and your quite happy to destroy it through irresponsible purchases. There's plenty of wood available to you from a lot closer than loggy the globe trotter you prefer. 5 mins on Google would easily find you 5 better options. FYI some kilns are now heated by wood, but still use electric for other processes. And seen as the kiln drying of logs is completely unnesseccecary then those logs with "0" carbon could have been used for a better purpose. Anyway I'm off to my pretend world now where we care about the future and spend a moment and maybe an extra pound to source things responsibly. While I'm there I think I might use the 70 tonne of logs in our shed to dry out some different logs, as after all they are "0" carbon.

Sure is, well worth a look if your local.

Hi chaps, wasn't going to post this as there's a lot of things I want, but due to unforseen circumstance and financial burdens. I cant go. As above near amersham bucks. The catalogue looks top. Lots of trailers(Tipper and log) saws,tractors endless carpentry machinery, planers, bandsaws, mills, landrovers etc etc.I want it all!!l If anyone wants copy of catalogue post or pm your email and ill send it to ya. Not sure how to post it here. James

It's people like you responsible for rape of this beautiful planet we are care takers of. It doesn't belong to us anymore than the bees. Before you discard the footprint of a container ship, which by the way is massive, you have to ask yourself is it necessary. In this instance the answer is NO. I buy my firewood(70 tonnes a year for personal use) in cord from a local seller. Cord comes from no more than 60 mile away. If for some reason we get behind in processing we buy processed logs from local dealer who's logs come from woodland around 5 mile away. How's does this compare with your well travelled logs. And don't forget the extra carbon used inthe kiln drying process. According to your logic we can import everything guilt free and discard footprint because it came on a big ship. Now think about all the related footprints associated with shipping. Like running massive docks and getting all fuel to docks, and actually building the unnecessary ship in the first place. Your carbon figures are as creative as the governments!

Is 36" gunna go down the middle of that? Lovely butt, love copper beech. If it was mine it would be table tops from the middle and legs and rails from the outer parts. James

I would say ash and beech are the top choices. My boards are usually made from, ash beech,cherry, walnut, oak.

Shouldnt turn a tree like that into logs:thumbup:

Cherry looks like firewood to me! Also people Will need to see pics of walnut if they are interested. I would be but your roo far away.

You haven't really thought about that one mate. If you live next to the docks you may have a point, but your doing the road hauling all the same to deliver to customer. And what about all the road hauling in the country of origin. The trees didn't grow on the ship did they. Imo container ships have a huge carbon footprint, especially when there importing things we can easily supply ourselves.

Nice one bud, picked a nice day for it too.

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We don't have one mate, a friend of mine does logs and has a hakki 1x easy. Small machine but I reckon its great. We only generally process about 65 tonnes each year for our own boiler. We hire him in for 3 - 4 days a year to get it done. Doing twice as much this year as we always seem to be behind. He brings his processor, tractor and transit Tipper and we get 4 of us working and fire it straight in the shed with Tipper. 2 people on processor and 2 stacking. We do roughly 18 tonne a day split and stacked. Not sure how good this is but it suits us. And Pete is so cheap its Not worth buying one. We have a Good splitter for year round use and the big stuff. James

Yes delivered to yard, he's a good man and think he does us favour as everyone else wants a lot more money. 99% 4-14" mostly all about 9" and three lengths about 20".

But this isn't the case with the small log mill where I believe you only lose 2or3".

We just had 52 tonne delivered 2 weeks ago for £43 per tonne. Processed last week and now in shed.only 3 lengths wouldn't go in processor. Roughly 60% ash 30% beech. Another 52 coming next week hopefully. James

No you do not. Not any insurance I've ever had anyhow.

I've got a 24" now ed, you'd be welcome to borrow if you needed it. Got anything worth milling your up for selling?

I May be interested, depending on their location? Any pics available James

I had the same decision to make a couple months back. Went for the 24",very pleased with it and glad i didnt go for the small log mill. I think the 044 is around 70cc so i would imagine a little under powered to run the 30" bar you need to use the full length of the 24" James

Thanks Wisecoat My 051 manual says the settings are the same as spuds post, but ill keep what you say in mind. So are you saying i should set h screw to max at 6500rpm?

Thanks Spud, I'll give it a go tomorrow. I dont have anything to test the speed so have to play that one by ear. Will let you know how i get on. James

Had a few hours spare today so started work on the worst saw, hekicoils to recoil case, new recoil spring, carb rebuild, new filters plugs etc. So read up as best I could on tuning carb, screwed low out 1 turn and high out 1.25 turns. Saw started ok but lots of white smoke(lots) . Im assuming I'm running too rich on low screw, but didn't want to damage anything so thought id ask if anyone had a simple description of how to tune and how to know how far to go with high screw. Thanks James

Sounds as if he's laughing all the way to the bank!

Should always be done yearly after nesting season we do ours September/october. No problems with insurance or certificates when self sweeping, although this is an issue in Germany.

I'm surprised that you say beech is hard to sell as I really enjoy working with it.